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Green Infrastructure- its Benefits and How it has Become an Issue of Environmental Injustice
Similar to our Lecture Assignment Project, our Educational Media project focuses on Green Infrastructure and its Impacts on Environmental Justice. Our presentation provides a brief overview about our topic at hand as we provide background information regarding the issue, environmental and human health benefits of green infrastructure (GI), current issues (such as the inequitable distribution of GI, green gentrification, as well as social and racial inequities), potential solutions, an overview of our podcast, and our educational stakeholders for our podcast. Following that, our educational media, our podcast: the Urban Ecology Experience, delves deeper into the topic we researched as we provide examples and data in regards to our issue. We also addressed some potential pressing questions throughout and discussed the potential solutions to our issue. We also wrote a short essay in regards to our topic, as we discussed and analyzed our gathered research on our topic. Whether it be through visuals, text, or audio, we hope that our educational media provides you all with a strong understanding of the importance and relevance of how green infrastructure is beneficial yet also paradoxically detrimental as it is a main contributing factor to environmental injustice.
Above is our group's Educational Media presentation on Green Infrastructure and its Undistributed Benefits. Within the presentation, we introduce the problem: GI has many benefits but unfortunately it is not accessible to everyone. This is what makes Green infrastructure an environmental justice issue. We then outline the numerous environmental, health, economic, and social benefits that come from implementing GI in urban areas. Next, we address the disparity that exists in GI development that marginalizes minority and low-income groups. Lastly, we discuss potential solutions to the problem as well as touching briefly on the media we created for this project (attached below).
To the left is our group's podcast, the 'Urban Ecology Experience' -
The Urban Ecology Experience
Like other podcasts, but better - we have an intellectual conversation about actual issues in our urban environment and provide solutions that benefit the whole community.
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To the right is our group's paper reflecting on our Educational Media as well as summarizing the benefits of green infrastructure and how it is an environmental injustice issue.
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